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...Western culture. Multinational media companies are salivating over the $3.4 billion in TV advertising carried on networks in China last year, only 6% of which went to foreign firms, according to Vivek Couto, a Hong Kong--based media consultant. But government restrictions limit some News Corp. channels to the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, luxury hotels, top government offices and approved apartment buildings. (Time Warner, owner of TIME, sold its controlling stake in a channel that also broadcast to Guangzhou in 2003.) Meanwhile, Beijing has left Disney in the cold by refusing to approve any more foreign satellite channels...
...defend itself against a new breed of enemy, Carpenter gave chase to the attackers. He hopped just as stealthily from computer to computer across the globe, chasing the spies as they hijacked a web of far-flung computers. Eventually he followed the trail to its apparent end, in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. He found that the attacks emanated from just three Chinese routers that acted as the first connection point from a local network to the Internet...
...company, trumped an Indian government-controlled firm with a winning $4.2 billion bid for PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian-owned firm with vast oil and gas reserves in the former Soviet republic. China certainly needs the go juice. Motorists lined up for hours at filling stations in the country's southern province of Guangdong two weeks ago, waiting to fill tanks with petrol that was suddenly in short supply. The scenes of idle gas pumps and irate drivers, which evoked memories of oil shocks of the 1970s, were the result of weather-related supply disruptions, according to the government. The fuel flow...
...what the market price is in, say, Singapore. But fixing prices at an artificially low level also has the less-desirable effect of cutting profits at China's major refiners?all of which are state-owned. Energy analysts suspect this was one reason for the recent gasoline shortages in southern China, with some companies perhaps holding back oil from the domestic market rather than selling it at a steep discount. Still, the overall economic impact of higher fuel costs may not be calamitous, even if Beijing allows wholesale prices to creep up closer to market levels. For one thing, only...
...Jean-Luc Rabenel, head chef of France's only organic Michelin-rated restaurant, La Chassagnette, who has more gardeners working for him than kitchen staff. "I'm the son of a farmer, the earth is my passion," says Rabanel in his restaurant, which lies just outside Arles in southern France, "and I'm going back to my roots." His kitchen uses vegetables, plants and aromatic herbs cultivated in the restaurant's 21/2-hectare garden. If the ingredients of dishes aren't homegrown, they come from the surrounding Carmargue region. Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...